Community, gender and violence
Community, gender and violence
- New York Columbia University Press 2000
- viii,347p. 23 cm.
- Subaltern studies ; 11 .
Papers presented at the Fifth Subaltern Studies Conference held in Colombo in June 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A greater story-writer than God : genre, gender and minority in late colonial India / Aamir R. Mufti -- A space for violence : anthropology, politics and the location of a Sinhala practice of masculinity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Embodying the self : feminism, sexual violence and the law / Nivedita Menon -- Women, marriage, and the subordination of rights / Flavia Agnes -- Nationalism refigured : contemporary South Indian cinema and the subject of feminism / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Hegemonic spatial strategies : the nation-space and Hindu communalism in twentieth-century India / Satish Deshpande -- Constituting the nation, contesting nationalism : the southern Tamil (woman) and separatist Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka / Qadri Ismail -- Toleration and historical traditions of difference / David Scott -- Discussion : an afterword on the new subaltern / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
9780231123150
00065756
Women--Social conditions--India--Congresses.
Women--Social conditions--Sri Lanka--Congresses.
Minorities--India--Congresses.
India--Politics and government--Congresses.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government--Congresses.
HQ1742 / .S7889 1995
305.8 / CO-
Papers presented at the Fifth Subaltern Studies Conference held in Colombo in June 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A greater story-writer than God : genre, gender and minority in late colonial India / Aamir R. Mufti -- A space for violence : anthropology, politics and the location of a Sinhala practice of masculinity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Embodying the self : feminism, sexual violence and the law / Nivedita Menon -- Women, marriage, and the subordination of rights / Flavia Agnes -- Nationalism refigured : contemporary South Indian cinema and the subject of feminism / Tejaswini Niranjana -- Hegemonic spatial strategies : the nation-space and Hindu communalism in twentieth-century India / Satish Deshpande -- Constituting the nation, contesting nationalism : the southern Tamil (woman) and separatist Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka / Qadri Ismail -- Toleration and historical traditions of difference / David Scott -- Discussion : an afterword on the new subaltern / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
9780231123150
00065756
Women--Social conditions--India--Congresses.
Women--Social conditions--Sri Lanka--Congresses.
Minorities--India--Congresses.
India--Politics and government--Congresses.
Sri Lanka--Politics and government--Congresses.
HQ1742 / .S7889 1995
305.8 / CO-